Shelia Diane Hughes was 29 and nine months pregnant when she vanished after leaving her sister’s home in Aliceville, Alabama, on the night of September 1, 2000. Her boyfriend and the unborn child’s father, Renard Simmons, arrived about 10:30 p.m. and asked her to go for a ride.

The last confirmed sighting came about 1:00 a.m. on September 2, when police stopped Simmons’ car at a roadblock in Pickensville, about ten miles from Aliceville, and confirmed Shelia was a passenger. Simmons later said he dropped her off at her sister’s around 3:00 a.m.; the sister insists Shelia never returned. No hospital records show her admitted, and after a month a brown purse and white slippers belonging to Shelia were found under a tree in a cotton field in Noxubee County, Mississippi, with no other evidence recovered.

Family members say Simmons opposed the pregnancy; investigators treated him as a person of interest but no charges were filed. Shelia was declared legally dead in February 2008. Does anyone have information about Shelia’s movements that night or about the items found in the Noxubee County field?